Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis has been another great week in the Oak class, there are two young men in particular that have had some WOW moments.
Confident individuals in literacy with a focus on handwriting and trying new foods, well done Jack and Cameron.
The Transition boys got mucky this week. Instead of working in the mud growing their vegetables the boys got stuck in making mud pies! They were Confident Individuals mixing the soil with the water and making their own shapes. Lots of scrubbing of hands ensued afterwards!
The Stars class were confident individuals and successful learners when we followed a maths trail in the garden. We followed instructions to collect and count items from the garden as well as identify and make shapes.
SCIENCE – BOUNCY EGG
We soaked boiled eggs in vinegar and found that the shell turned soft, We tentatively checked if it would bounce and it did……..a little!
We have a right to share our thoughts freely UNICEF Article 13. We enjoyed listening to a story called, ‘What to do with an idea’. The moral of the story was to share your ideas with everyone and say what you are thinking. So we made a silhouette picture of our head and put jigsaw puzzles inside for our ideas. In the Oak class we are regularly encouraged to share what we think.
We enjoy working on our reading skills every week, we are becoming confident individuals at reconsigning the familiar words that are repeated throughout the story.
Everyone in the Oak class loves pizza, we played a pizza topping game with friends to increase our memory skills. Some of us could remember three toppings others could remember up to five toppings.
We were successful learners when following the music to play some of our favourite songs, this week we played ‘I Love my Life’ and ‘Three Little Birds’. Everyone was actively engaged in the music lesson.
We enjoyed our outdoor PE lesson, we were working on our basketball skills. We were confident individuals when trying to dribble and shoot as independently as possible. Everyone focused their attention and listened to the advice given to make their performance better.
The Stars class made a poster showing child work and poverty abroad. After printing pizza vegetables we used our switches to take pizza orders then created pictures of our choices. Pepperoni was very popular!
In Numeracy we were all successful learners and worked on our counting skills – lots of counting songs and finding a set of classroom objects for each number.
1 Fly Swat
2 Pretty Flowers
3 Rhythm Sticks
4 Musical Bells
5 Different Feelings
6 Pink Flamingos
7 Classmates
Colour Matching – griping the different objects and posting them through the correct slot.
We enjoyed doing some art work and using bubble wrap to help us create some different effects.
The weather was so nice on Tuesday afternoon we got outside in the sunshine and had great fun having a sing song!!
In keeping with our Rainbow theme this week is all about GREEN, and we have started reading a new story called ‘I do not eat the colour green’.
Music and Move with some confident individuals.
Domino Fun
ICE Pack – How I feel? We are continuing reading the story ‘The Color Monster’ – we all decided what colour and what materials to use to bring our Monsters to life!!!
We have also been looking at the changing seasons and made some beautiful leaves for our windows.
We had some fun with bread dough, it is great exercise for our hands – stretching and griping and a fun sensory experience too!
Have a great weekend
From the Pine Class
The boys in the Bluebells were successful learners for “Maths Week” this week. On Monday we had a shape hunt indoors, we were all confident individuals finding the different coloured shapes around the room. We then matched lots of shapes on our shape sheet.
On Friday we did lots of number activities including a lovely number tuff tray in our outdoor area. We had different numbers in bowls and had to use the tweezers to put the correct number of pom poms into the bowl. The boys were successful learners all trying to use the tweezers independently and with a little support from the staff.
On Thursday we added ingredients to a bag and placed inside another bag to make our own ice cream. The cold ice and salt when we shook the bag and it froze the ingredients to make the ice cream. We were all confident individuals shaking the bag to create the ice cream. We even had a little try of the ice cream with our own spoons.
The Transition boys were Confident Individuals when doing some beautiful Autumn art using natural materials e.g. leaves branches and conkers.
Since coming back in August everyone in the Oak class have been busy as usual. We are so happy to be back together and also being able to share all our work on the blog. We have all been successful learners and confident individuals getting back into school routine and building up our stamina for learning again. Here are some photos of the work we have been doing so far;
Cameron, Jack and Sam are happy to be back at school with their friends.
We enjoy daily exercise which includes cosmic yoga and a 20 minute run / walk. The running and improved stamina is getting very impressive.
We have been working hard on our time telling skills, matching analogue to digital. Also we have been doing some problem solving activities.
Our theme topic is the ‘Great Outdoors’, we have been enjoying taking part in all the activities related to our book, ‘A Camping Spree with Mr Magee’.
Throughout the week we take part in set games to encourage turn taking and interacting with our peers.
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